Monday, May 5, 2014

1902 POEMS OF WALT WHITMAN (LEAVES OF GRASS) - RARE ANTIQUE EDITION - ART NOUVEAU BINDING

1902

THE POEMS OF WALT WHITMAN
(LEAVES OF GRASS)

*** RARE ANTIQUE EDITION ~ BEAUTIFUL ART NOUVEAU FINE BINDING ~ CLASSIC POETRY ***

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, 1902.

• measures about 7.5'' x 5''
• beautiful publisher's decorative cloth Art Nouveau fine binding
• ornate embossed gold gilt and white stamping
• frontispiece photo portrait of Whitman with tissue-guard
• extra vignette title page printed in red and black - designed by Theodore B. Hapgood with his monogram lower left



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